Is the universal string axion the QCD axion?

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.11.009zbMATH Open1192.83068arXivhep-th/0510190OpenAlexW2058139459MaRDI QIDQ877330FDOQ877330

Authors: M. K. Gaillard, Ben Kain 

Publication date: 20 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the class of effective supergravity theories from the weakly coupled heterotic string in which local supersymmetry is broken by gaugino condensation in a hidden sector, with dilaton stabilization achieved through corrections to the classical dilaton K"ahler potential. If there is a single hidden condensing (simple) gauge group, the axion is massless (up to contributions from higher dimension operators) above the QCD condensation scale. We show how the standard relation between the axion mass and its Planck scale coupling constant is modified in this class of models due to a contribution to the axion-gluon coupling that appears below the scale of supersymmetry breaking when gluinos are integrated out. In particular there is a point of enhanced symmetry in parameter space where the axion mass is suppressed. We revisit the question of the universal axion as the Peccei-Quinn axion in the light of these results, and find that the strong CP problem is avoided in most compactifications of the weakly coupled heterotic string.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510190

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

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• Supersymmetry and superstring phenomenology
• KÄHLER STABILIZED, MODULAR INVARIANT HETEROTIC STRING MODELS
• Perspective on the weakly coupled heterotic string
• Axions in the landscape and string theory
• Quantum supergravity, supergravity anomalies and string phenomenology
• Effective cosmological constant within the expanding axion universe

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